Tool Backpack Benchmarking Solution

Ensure the competitiveness of your 5G wireless network indoors, benchmark your network against competitors

Lightweight and modular benchmarking solution with free OTA reception

• Free OTA RF reception and radiation for all test phones. No obstacles blocking the signal reception or transmission
• Use with up to 18 UEs and 1-2 scanning receivers
• Lightweight and ergonomic, high-quality backpack enables measurements in crowded indoor spaces
• Smart design provides easy access to test devices and cables
• Use as a standalone system without an external power source or mounted on a vehicle with an external +12 V DC power source
• Hot swap lithium-ion battery packs to perform long measurement campaigns
• IPx3 protected

Optimize 5G network quality

• Measures end-user QoE with no over-the-air path loss to measurements, improving the accuracy of captured data
• Offers advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-driven Application Testing Automation method for over-the-top (OTT) and social media application testing
• Improves benchmarking efficiency because everything can be measured with one walk test
• Reduces time, work effort, and costs related to indoor benchmarking and drive testing
• Enables longer walk tests and benchmarking measurements thanks to the ergonomic and lightweight design
• Works also without access to a GPS signal with the automatic indoor positioning function

Tool Backpack for indoor benchmarking of 5G networks

People increasingly use their smartphones in shopping malls, theaters, and sports arenas and demand uninterrupted and high-quality access to wireless networks. Because the majority of cellular data today is consumed indoors, performing 5G in-building benchmarking in live networks is vital. When performing benchmarking measurements of live 5G networks, the network quality of different mobile operators is compared against each another.

Tool Backpack enables the measuring of quality-of-experience (QoE) metrics for the services and applications your customers are actually using. With the automated AI-driven Application Testing Automation method, wireless service providers can reliably and rapidly optimize 5G network performance and deliver greater quality of experience (QoE) for smartphone users accessing world’s most widely used OTT services and social media applications, including Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Snapchat, TikTok, and Zoom.

Tool Backpack is a lightweight and modular benchmarking solution for indoor and outdoor use with Outdoor tool. Tool Backpack allows users to measure in-building key performance indicators (KPIs) across multiple mobile operators’ 5G networks simultaneously using up to 18 measurement devices and 1-2 scanning receivers.

Benchmarking for all wireless technologies

Due to the innovative structural design, all the test handsets have free over-the-air (OTA) RF reception and radiation without any pathloss or attenuation of the signal coming from the network. This enables operators to measure 5G FR1 and FR2 network QoS and QoE using the most accurate and scientific methods.

With high-quality lithium-ion batteries, Tool Backpack can be used as a standalone system without an external power source. When mounted in a vehicle, a cigarette lighter connector providing +12 V power can be used to power up the devices or charge batteries.

The new Tool Backpack is also designed to be used with commercial non-rooted phones which enables the quick verification of data and call performance and the comparison of QoE and QoS using the latest Android phones. The system allows the simultaneous use of different combinations of measurement modes, such as, voice calls, voice quality calls, and data transfers. The system is operated with a Tablet PC or a laptop.

Tool Backpack will radically improve benchmarking efficiency as you can measure everything with one walk test without the need to visit the same location twice. As Tool Backpack Pro supports up to 18 measurement phones, you can measure, for example, data, calls, streaming, voice quality, and OTT apps for several operators simultaneously.

Thanks to the extremely small Nemo log file size, the log files and test results can be uploaded over the air into Cloud during the measurements. Tool Cloud can be configured to initiate automatic test report generation and to email the report to relevant recipients. As the report will be ready immediately after tests have been completed, the solution will radically reduce time, work effort, and costs related to mobile network benchmarking.